Curtain-fixture



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CfH. WHEELER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 17,059, dated April 14, 1857.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, C. H. WHEELER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Method of Securing Curtains to Their Rods, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan. Fig. 2, an elevation, Fig. 3 edge and front views of one of the brackets. Fig. 4 similar views of the other bracket. Fig. 5 represents the method which I have adopted of securing the curtain to its rod.

To enable others skilled in the art to j understand my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

My invent-ion consists in a new and efficient method of securing the curtain to its rod without the use of nails, and by means of which the curtain may be instantaneously put up, and as readily taken down, and may at any moment be adjusted after it is in place without the necessity even of taking down the curtain rod.

A Fig. 5 is a section through the curtain rod into which is planed a dovetailed slot or groove c. The upper edge of the curtain is then lapped over a small rod f, which is entered from the end of the rod into the groove c. The curtain passes through the narrow slit z', in the roll and the rod f is jammed between the inclined sides of the groove 0, by which the curtain is held tightly and immovably in place, any strain upon the curtain tending only to hold it more securely to its rod. Should the curtain be found to hang uneven after it is in place, it may be adjusted without taking down the roll by simply raising the rod f at any particular point with the blade of a penknife and pulling through the curtain one way or the other as may be required. W'hen it is desired to remove the curtain from its roll, it is simply necessary to withdraw the rod f, when the curtain will fall out.

The other details of the curtain fixture represented in the accompanying drawings form no part of lmy present invention and need not be further described.

I do not claim broadly fastening the curtain to the rod by securing it to a wire that is introduced into a groove in the roll having a narrow slit for the passage of the curtain, but

This I only claim- `When the sides of the groove are straight and dovetailed as described whereby the curtain is securely held to its roll without other fastening as set forth.

C. H. WHEELER.

Witnesses:

SAM. COOPER, THos. R. RoAcH. 

